So i’m on week two of my four-week summer vacation. Still reading Broken Angels. I’m at the part with the scary nano tech. Thing. I tried kernel 3.0 from the kernel ppa for ubuntu, but that didn’t work out too well. I guess fglrx is to blame, because i received errors about it during kernel […]
Read MoreI was trying to customize Ubuntu just a bit, in regards to the “special folders”, that is, ~/Public, ~/Videos etc. These are special, in that they are recreated and/or renamed every time you log in, back to their defaults. Where are these defaults you ask? So did i, and the answer is pretty simple, and […]
Read MoreAmazon delivered my copy of “Just for Fun” by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond. It’s going to be a good read, i can feel it! In parallel i am still reading “Broken Angels” by Richard Morgan. Still recommend the latter. I am also still on Ubuntu 11.04, but without Unity. I can’t do it. I […]
Read MoreLike the topic sez. I’ve been trying out different distros over the past weeks, and landed right back where i started. Basically. I’ve gone through Arch, Archbang, Xubuntu, Debian 6, and finally Ubuntu. This is sad to admit, but in all other distros, i had some deal breaker problems that i was unable to solve […]
Read MoreThis week i have been mostly reading…NOTHING Poor reference to some British comedy of the not-so-recent past. Anyway, what i want to say is I am currently re-reading the sequel (Broken Angels) to the excellent book by Richard Morgan, “Altered Carbon”. If you like high-flying Sci-Fi, you’ll like Richard Morgan’s books. The paperbacks cost next […]
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